[#289458] Parsing JSON (#155) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

86 messages 2008/02/01
[#289675] Re: [QUIZ] Parsing JSON (#155) — steve <oksteev@...> 2008/02/03

Hey guys

[#289709] Re: [QUIZ] Parsing JSON (#155) — "Eric Mahurin" <eric.mahurin@...> 2008/02/04

On Feb 3, 2008 8:14 AM, steve <oksteev@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#289712] Re: [QUIZ] Parsing JSON (#155) — Clifford Heath <no@...> 2008/02/04

Eric Mahurin wrote:

[#289715] Re: [QUIZ] Parsing JSON (#155) — "Eric Mahurin" <eric.mahurin@...> 2008/02/04

On Feb 3, 2008 6:25 PM, Clifford Heath <no@spam.please.net> wrote:

[#289718] Re: [QUIZ] Parsing JSON (#155) — Clifford Heath <no@...> 2008/02/04

Eric Mahurin wrote:

[#289722] Re: [QUIZ] Parsing JSON (#155) — "Eric Mahurin" <eric.mahurin@...> 2008/02/04

On Feb 3, 2008 6:39 PM, Clifford Heath <no@spam.please.net> wrote:

[#289557] Comparing Active Record VS Datamapper...? — Softmind Technology <softmindtechnology@...>

Hello,

15 messages 2008/02/02
[#289633] Re: Comparing Active Record VS Datamapper...? — Ilan Berci <coder68@...> 2008/02/02

Softmind Technology wrote:

[#289636] Re: Comparing Active Record VS Datamapper...? — "s.ross" <cwdinfo@...> 2008/02/03

On 2/2/08 3:56 PM, "Ilan Berci" <coder68@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#289572] Extracting vowels and consonants using regular expression — Dondi <Donovan.Dillon@...>

I am trying to parse a string and extract all vowels and consonants

10 messages 2008/02/02

[#289579] FastRI 0.3.1: faster, Leopard compatibility, etc. — Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>

FastRI is an alternative to the ri documentation browser for Ruby.

21 messages 2008/02/02
[#289683] Re: [ANN] FastRI 0.3.1: faster, Leopard compatibility, etc. — botp <botpena@...> 2008/02/03

On Feb 3, 2008 1:07 AM, Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@acm.org> wrote:

[#290164] Re: [ANN] FastRI 0.3.1: faster, Leopard compatibility, etc. — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2008/02/06

On Feb 3, 2008, at 07:40 AM, botp wrote:

[#291478] Re: [ANN] FastRI 0.3.1: faster, Leopard compatibility, etc. — Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...> 2008/02/18

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:52:20AM +0900, Eric Hodel wrote:

[#291493] Re: [ANN] FastRI 0.3.1: faster, Leopard compatibility, etc. — James Gray <james@...> 2008/02/18

On Feb 18, 2008, at 5:53 AM, Mauricio Fernandez wrote:

[#289674] Ruby for game programming — t3chn0n3rd <darrin_allen@...>

Is anyone using Ruby for game programming?

17 messages 2008/02/03

[#289859] how to say # in ruby — Dan Ford <wade@...>

I'm accustomed to usenet as opposed to whatever this is.

22 messages 2008/02/04

[#289900] Introducing Waves - Web App Framework — Dan Yoder <dan@...>

I am pleased to announce the first beta release of Waves, an open-

32 messages 2008/02/05
[#290017] Re: [ANN] Introducing Waves - Web App Framework — Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com> 2008/02/06

Dan Yoder wrote:

[#290001] Computer Science Problems — markonlinux@...

Hi all,

33 messages 2008/02/05

[#290020] Ruby type-safe? Ruby strongly/weakly typed? Ruby pitfalls? — "rule.rule.rule@..." <rule.rule.rule@...>

Hi,

36 messages 2008/02/06

[#290022] simple ruby proxy server? — Dt Town <dtown22@...>

I am trying to right at application which will simply record the headers

13 messages 2008/02/06

[#290167] Array Practice — Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@...>

As some of you may know from previous threads im trying to practice

27 messages 2008/02/06

[#290195] info on block arguments — Russell Me <russ@...>

I'm trying to pick up ruby and I'm impressed by all the cool stuff it

24 messages 2008/02/07

[#290208] idiom I've not seen before — Rob Saul <wyrd@...>

12 messages 2008/02/07

[#290244] Parsing JSON (#155) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

We saw a large variety of solutions for this week's problem. Many of them used

13 messages 2008/02/07

[#290245] using net::ssh shell to sudo to another user and execute commands — "wbsurfver@..." <wbsurfver@...>

11 messages 2008/02/07

[#290272] is lots of files with Threads faster? — Chris Richards <evilgeenius@...>

Im required to open 50+ files and parse the data in them. WOuld using

11 messages 2008/02/07

[#290296] BigDecimal.new('15.25') == 15.25, false ?? — Henry Jones <mathieu.houle@...>

Hi,

14 messages 2008/02/07

[#290328] trouble with FileUtils.rm() -- Invalid arguement error — an an <dtown22@...>

I have been screwing with this for the last hour, and I still cant get

12 messages 2008/02/08

[#290374] Internal Rate of Return (#156) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

47 messages 2008/02/08

[#290483] Beginner help - txt dungeon — Jonathon Hartoon <ezrickknight@...>

Hi. I have tried to learn other programming languages before and ruby

20 messages 2008/02/09

[#290716] non case sensitive searching — Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@...>

If i want to see if a list contains a particular word how would i go

15 messages 2008/02/11

[#290735] Rev/actor TCP monkey patching — fedzor <fedzor@...>

Short and sweet -

13 messages 2008/02/11

[#290825] How do C programmers do unit testing? — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>

This may seem like a silly question, but how do C programmers (assume

13 messages 2008/02/12

[#290931] Robert's Ruby Riddle: Local or Method — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...>

Hi list I was just thinking it might fun to present some of Ruby's

10 messages 2008/02/13

[#290982] ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>

I recently upgraded to ruby 1.8.6 on mac os x 10.4.7. I had ruby tk

47 messages 2008/02/13
[#290994] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Jeremy Henty <onepoint@...> 2008/02/13

On 2008-02-13, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#291001] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/14

Jeremy Henty wrote:

[#291006] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Hidetoshi NAGAI <nagai@...> 2008/02/14

From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com>

[#291014] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/14

Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:

[#291447] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Hidetoshi NAGAI <nagai@...> 2008/02/18

From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com>

[#291459] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/18

Hidetoshi NAGAI wrote:

[#291519] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...> 2008/02/18

On Feb 18, 2008, at 2:52 AM, 7stud -- wrote:

[#291529] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/18

Morton Goldberg wrote:

[#291556] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...> 2008/02/19

On Feb 18, 2008, at 3:05 PM, 7stud -- wrote:

[#291567] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/19

Morton Goldberg wrote:

[#291601] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...> 2008/02/19

On Feb 18, 2008, at 10:28 PM, 7stud -- wrote:

[#291603] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/19

Morton Goldberg wrote:

[#291621] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...> 2008/02/19

On Feb 19, 2008, at 7:05 AM, 7stud -- wrote:

[#291626] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/19

Morton Goldberg wrote:

[#291637] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...> 2008/02/19

[#291707] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/20

John Joyce wrote:

[#291742] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...> 2008/02/20

On Feb 19, 2008, at 7:41 PM, 7stud -- wrote:

[#291747] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/20

Morton Goldberg wrote:

[#291819] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — "Leslie Viljoen" <leslieviljoen@...> 2008/02/20

On Feb 20, 2008 8:59 AM, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#291846] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...> 2008/02/20

[#291967] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/21

John Joyce wrote:

[#292774] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Tim Ferrell <s0nspark@...> 2008/02/27

7stud -- wrote:

[#292964] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/29

Tim Ferrell wrote:

[#292971] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Tim Ferrell <s0nspark@...> 2008/02/29

7stud -- wrote:

[#292992] Re: ruby tk -- how do you get it working? — Tim Ferrell <s0nspark@...> 2008/02/29

Tim Ferrell wrote:

[#290985] my noob "numbering lines" programe. How to improve? — Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@...>

Give us hints on how to improve this program. If you want to show your

11 messages 2008/02/13

[#291013] Memcached: Dealing with unknown keys — Tony Garcia <tony23@...>

I was wondering if there is a way to handle reading keys when you don't

14 messages 2008/02/14

[#291039] Internal Rate of Return (#156) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

Solving the IRR equation is essentially a matter of computational guesswork.

15 messages 2008/02/14

[#291084] object specific methods and id — UpsNDowns <tnospamhomas@...>

Hi,

24 messages 2008/02/14
[#291088] Re: object specific methods and id — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2008/02/14

UpsNDowns wrote:

[#291089] Re: object specific methods and id — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2008/02/14

[#291184] Re: object specific methods and id — UpsNDowns <tnospamhomas@...> 2008/02/15

Thanks for the reply.

[#291261] Re: object specific methods and id — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2008/02/16

[#291302] Re: object specific methods and id — UpsNDowns <tnospamhomas@...> 2008/02/16

Gary Wright wrote:

[#291141] The Smallest Circle (#157) — Matthew D Moss <matthew.moss@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz 2:

61 messages 2008/02/15

[#291192] Proper way to RDoc markup? — Serg Koren <skoren@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2008/02/15

[#291269] Alter String base class to perform new (private methods) before returning itself when called by print statements — "Steven G. Harms" <steven.harms@...>

class String

8 messages 2008/02/16

[#291280] GC error ? — Piotr Sawicki <piotr.sawicki@...>

Run this program and observe memory usage.

26 messages 2008/02/16
[#291584] Re: GC error ? — "evanwebb@..." <evanwebb@...> 2008/02/19

On Feb 16, 4:12=A0am, Piotr Sawicki <piotr.sawi...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#291281] TRAC - Trac, Project Leads, Python, and Mr. Noah Kantrowitz (sanitizer) — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>

Essence:

14 messages 2008/02/16

[#291354] Slide Show v0.1 - A Free Web Alternative to PowerPoint and KeyNote in Ruby Now Live — "Gerald Bauer" <geraldbauer2007@...>

Hello,

12 messages 2008/02/17

[#291381] displaying user inputed arrays — Isaac Toothyxdip <toothyxdip@...>

[code]

36 messages 2008/02/17
[#291405] Re: displaying user inputed arrays — Wally T Terrible <wally.terrible@...> 2008/02/17

I'm not entirely sure what you intend to do. If you wanted to get five

[#291424] Re: displaying user inputed arrays — Siep Korteling <s.korteling@...> 2008/02/17

Wally T Terrible wrote:

[#291858] Re: displaying user inputed arrays — "Todd Benson" <caduceass@...> 2008/02/20

On Feb 17, 2008 9:18 AM, Isaac Toothyxdip <toothyxdip@gmail.com> wrote:

[#291877] Re: displaying user inputed arrays — "Todd Benson" <caduceass@...> 2008/02/20

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Todd Benson <caduceass@gmail.com> wrote:

[#291884] Re: displaying user inputed arrays — Isaac Toothyxdip <toothyxdip@...> 2008/02/20

Thanks that works!

[#291887] Re: displaying user inputed arrays — Isaac Toothyxdip <toothyxdip@...> 2008/02/20

Isaac Toothyxdip wrote:

[#291899] Re: displaying user inputed arrays — "Todd Benson" <caduceass@...> 2008/02/20

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Isaac Toothyxdip <toothyxdip@gmail.com> wrote:

[#291515] Connecting to HyperTerminal — Active View <active.view@...>

Hi all...

16 messages 2008/02/18
[#291525] Re: Connecting to HyperTerminal — Ben Bleything <ben@...> 2008/02/18

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008, Active View wrote:

[#291630] Object#freeze as a basis for caching of method results? — "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@...>

Hello, ruby-talk.

12 messages 2008/02/19

[#291664] ||= [] idiom — "Leslie Viljoen" <leslieviljoen@...>

I often make use of this idiom to add something to an array in a hash of arrays:

24 messages 2008/02/19

[#291677] Is there any object-oriented File class in ruby ? — tom_33 <tomjbr.56770318@...>

I am very new to Ruby and my question is about trying to understand

22 messages 2008/02/19

[#291682] HELP: Need to continue the loop after the exception — mirth <mirthcyy@...>

hi guys,

12 messages 2008/02/19

[#291717] IP Address to Decimal - is an one-liner possible? — "Tiago Pinto" <thpinto@...>

Hi guys,

22 messages 2008/02/20

[#291774] What does *args do? — Stedwick <philip.brocoum@...>

I sometimes see funcs declared with def fun (blah, *args)

14 messages 2008/02/20

[#291853] 32bit vs 64bit vs UML performance — Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscription@...>

I've run the QUIZ benchmark on several systems to check their relative

17 messages 2008/02/20

[#291990] beginner's problem with sqlite3 — Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>

It would be helpful if the sqlite3-ruby documentation offered one or two

15 messages 2008/02/21

[#292056] Where does instance_eval _magically_ set the variable to? — Andrew Chen <hangfei@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2008/02/21

[#292080] Newbie Mem Leak Issue — Keith Barr <keith.barr@...>

I am fairly new to Ruby and a program that I have created seems to have

14 messages 2008/02/21

[#292186] gsub("\\", "\\\\") seems unintuitive — John Woods <jqwoods@...>

The following confusing behavior is noted in the pickaxe book (2nd ed)

11 messages 2008/02/22

[#292250] ANN: Teach yourself Ruby - the hard way! — "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@...>

A frequent question from Ruby newcomers is "Okay, I've read the

12 messages 2008/02/23

[#292269] Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — "Avdi Grimm" <avdi@...>

Hi folks,

118 messages 2008/02/23
[#292274] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — "Eric Mahurin" <eric.mahurin@...> 2008/02/23

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Avdi Grimm <avdi@avdi.org> wrote:

[#292385] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — James Gray <james@...> 2008/02/25

On Feb 23, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Eric Mahurin wrote:

[#292281] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...> 2008/02/23

Avdi Grimm wrote:

[#292514] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — "Michal Suchanek" <hramrach@...> 2008/02/25

On 24/02/2008, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:

[#292584] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — "Jones, Brian - McClatchy Interactive" <bjones@...> 2008/02/26

I'd be at least a little interested in potentially offering developers

[#292594] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — Trans <transfire@...> 2008/02/26

[#292601] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — James Britt <james.britt@...> 2008/02/26

Trans wrote:

[#292603] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — "Avdi Grimm" <avdi@...> 2008/02/26

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:25 PM, James Britt <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:

[#292362] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — furtive.clown@... 2008/02/24

[#292366] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2008/02/24

[#292961] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — Trans <transfire@...> 2008/02/29

[#292978] Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby — "Eric Mahurin" <eric.mahurin@...> 2008/02/29

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

[#292368] Suprising behaviour with "def property=" method — "Farrel Lifson" <farrel.lifson@...>

I had a bit of a surprise with the following

14 messages 2008/02/24

[#292394] NoMethodError: private method `to_date' — Sukeerthi Adiga <sukeerthiadiga@...>

Loading development environment.

12 messages 2008/02/25

[#292398] Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>

I wrote up an article on Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb that

58 messages 2008/02/25
[#294446] Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/03/13

Hi,

[#294479] Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2008/03/13

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 01:02:52AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#294491] Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/03/13

Hi,

[#294551] Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2008/03/14

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 07:43:28AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#294559] Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/03/14

Hi,

[#294591] Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Tanaka Akira <akr@...> 2008/03/14

In article <E1JaB7P-0000Zc-QP@x61.netlab.jp>,

[#294639] Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2008/03/15

Hi,

[#294917] Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Tanaka Akira <akr@...> 2008/03/18

In article <E1JaM9H-0000jj-AB@x61.netlab.jp>,

[#295093] Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...> 2008/03/19

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 02:04:40PM +0900, Tanaka Akira wrote:

[#292540] Math problem — grandmabeckie@...

I am try to help my daughter:

25 messages 2008/02/26

[#292704] Getting number of days in a month — Shandy Nantz <shandybleu@...>

This is probably an easy question but I am trying to get at the number

26 messages 2008/02/27

[#292781] MacRuby — "Laurent Sansonetti" <laurent.sansonetti@...>

Hi,

16 messages 2008/02/28

[#292795] Need a regex searching html code — Chirantan <chirantan.rajhans@...>

I have an html code into string. I want to retrieve the content (Can

18 messages 2008/02/28

[#292816] proc.new and return — S2 <email@...>

I am sure this is a really easy question for most of you, but i was not

15 messages 2008/02/28

[#292839] Proposed Solutions - Was [ Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby ] — hemant <gethemant@...>

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:55 PM, James Britt <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:

17 messages 2008/02/28

[#292860] Named sprintf parameters — Trans <transfire@...>

I have a question and perhaps a bit of challenge for those with mad

15 messages 2008/02/28

[#292865] constants defined in Kernel are also defined in Object? — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>

This seems peculiar to me:

15 messages 2008/02/28

[#293044] making a monthly calendar... — Mikkel Bruun <mikkel@...>

Hey

25 messages 2008/02/29
[#293088] Re: making a monthly calendar... — "Todd Benson" <caduceass@...> 2008/03/01

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Mikkel Bruun <mikkel@helenius.dk> wrote:

[#293090] Re: making a monthly calendar... — Mikkel Bruun <mikkel@...> 2008/03/01

Todd Benson wrote:

[#293092] Re: making a monthly calendar... — "Todd Benson" <caduceass@...> 2008/03/01

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Mikkel Bruun <mikkel@helenius.dk> wrote:

[#293223] Re: making a monthly calendar... — "Todd Benson" <caduceass@...> 2008/03/03

Oh my goodness! A thousand apologies. I gave you a rotating month. See below.

[#293264] Re: making a monthly calendar... — Mikkel Bruun <mikkel@...> 2008/03/03

So I ended up with:

Re: weird binding error

From: Perry Smith <pedz@...>
Date: 2008-02-01 04:41:47 UTC
List: ruby-talk #289421
ara howard wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Perry Smith wrote:
> 
>>                # Problem occurs here  wrap calls Object#wrap instead
>>                # of Cached::Base#wrap or Cached::Queue#wrap
>>                temp.wrap_with_combined
> 
> there really isn't enough code there to say, but i'm guessing you have
> a 'has_many' association and are calling 'wrap_with_combined' on a
> *Array*, thus defining it on Object intercepts this call.
> 
> perhaps an explanation of what you are trying to do?
> 
> regards.
> 
> a @ http://codeforpeople.com/

Thanks Howard.

I found a way to dump out ancestors and I found a thread talking about 
association proxies.  In that thread, it tells to do (from memory) ( 
class << temp; self; end).ancestors

Doing this produces a list of associations and proxies, etc (as you 
predicted).  And Cached::Queue is not in the list.

I added wrap and unwrap methods to a couple of the association classes 
and that solved my problem.  I am not yet to what I think is a general 
solution but I'm at least understanding what is happening at little 
more.

What am I doing?  I have a legacy system that is remote called Retain. 
For each concept, like a PMR, I have three classes.  Retain::PMR, 
Cached::PMR, and Combined::PMR.  Retain::PMR goes to retain and gets the 
data.  Cached::PMR is a subclass of ActiveRecord::Base and uses all the 
normal ActiveRecord features.  Combined::PMR is the magic that glues 
them together.  For any request, I look to see if I have it in 
Cached::PMR.  I use time stamps to expire it, etc.  If it is there and 
current, I just present that.  If not, I go to Retain::PMR to get the 
data from Retain and save it in Cached::PMR.  All the usual rails code 
(the controllers and views) work with Combined objects (or thats the 
idea).

Most of the magic is done with method_method and respond_to? so when 
pmr.owner comes, it goes to a Combined instance's method_missing which 
(if the cache is deemed valid) is forwarded on to the Cached 
(ActiveRecord) instance.  When the request completes, it is "wrapped" so 
the result is a Combined instance -- not a Cached instance.

Most things, the "wrapped" version is self.  For instances of bases 
which are a subclass of Cached::Base, the wrapped version is the 
equivalent Combined version.  For somethings like Arrays and Hash, the 
wrap version is an Arrary or Hash with each value wrapped.

Right now, my biggest question is how does the association do this 
magic?  I haven't found it yet.  Driving home I thought I need to look 
for places that do things like class << self and other things like that 
which modify the metaclass of an object.  I've been looking at 
initialize and those things but that hasn't told me anything.  But I'm 
wondering how an object that isn't an Array (to pick an example) says 
"Array#...." when inspected or when name is called, etc.

Thank you for your help

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